[Net King] Pilgrim

On the day of the debate finals, the weather forecast showed a big sun for the whole of Japan, and Machida was in a very good mood and state.

The venue for the finals will be in the Ice Emperor's school auditorium.Several members of Qingxue felt deeply about the splendor of the Ice Emperor Academy in private, and then calmed down and devoted themselves to the competition.

It is not too late to announce the theme of this debate competition, and the knowledge involved is completely within the grasp of middle school students. Moreover, Machida has led the team to train for several rounds, and the suggestions he gives each time are to the point. The tacit understanding among the members is getting stronger and stronger.

So like what Machida said, Aigaku is actually very confident about this final.

It’s just that Bingdi’s debaters clearly had the aura to suppress the audience at the beginning of the match, and they were caught off guard by several times of aggressiveness, but fortunately, Qingxue’s team soon realized that the opponent’s purpose was to disrupt them According to the rhythm, he deliberately exposed his flaws along the way, and then started to counterattack when the opponent relaxed a little.

After about half an hour of the game, it ended with a narrow victory for Qingxue.

At the award ceremony, Hisashi Machida took the stage to accept the award as a representative of Seigaku, and the participating team members stood in a row behind him.

As soon as Machida watched him take the trophy from the award presenter, the word "SEIGAKU" was engraved on the golden cup, and the texture of the grooves on the curved surface shone almost white under the bright lights of the auditorium.

Amidst the thunderous applause, she stood upright in the team, she let out a sigh of relief and curled the corners of her mouth, but then suddenly a strange emotion surged in her heart.

She couldn't tell what this complicated mood was, she just felt as if everything was settled.

Senior Sawano next to her nudged her slightly with his elbow, and reminded her in a low voice, "Machida."

As soon as Machida was pulled back by his voice, he realized that there was a person standing in front of him.At eye level with her is a white shirt covered with a tie. The front of the shirt is inlaid with the word "Emperor".

She just heard that awards are now being given to the participating team members, so she quickly withdrew her thoughts and prepared to bow and thank her.The lights at the outermost part of the stage were dimmed, and she was the last person to accept the award.

There was a soft rubbing sound between the clothes in front of her, and she was about to lean over when she suddenly heard a deep and magnetic voice above her head, speaking slowly, "First grade?"

She was stunned, raised her head in doubt, and in the next second without warning, she met a pair of deep and deep phoenix eyes, which were composed with a trace of casual intelligence.

He raised his eyebrows, and was holding the medal by the neckline with one hand, standing in front of her in a rather leisurely posture, without concealing his arrogance.

Machida raised his head and looked directly at him, then nodded slightly, with a calm tone, "Yes."

Then I saw him lift his chin in a clear manner, and then loosen the medal and hang it around her neck.

After the series of official actions were over, he had no intention of leaving. He stood still and raised the corners of his lips, staring at her and continued unhurriedly, "If you win the game, you think you can relax, right? Ah huh?"

She was slightly startled.

His words sound a bit embarrassing, but his tone and appearance don't seem to be deliberately targeting.

The atmosphere in the auditorium of Nuo University was warm, the applause continued unabated, and screams came one after another from the audience.

As soon as Machida met his gaze, her face remained normal, "I was quite relaxed when I played the game." Her voice was not loud, and it could spread to the front of her. From the perspective of the audience, she seemed to be thanking her. .

Hearing this, the person in front of her narrowed her eyes, as if looking at her, with a stern and lazy aura in her eyes.

After a while, he chuckled, turned around and walked off the stage, leaving a sentence inexplicably: "The first graders of Qingxue are really more arrogant than each other."

She stared at his walking back and frowned, not knowing why, "Who is that person?"

"It's the student council president of Hyotei." Senior Sawano explained and reminded her to step down, "It's Keigo Atobe."

Machida grabbed the medal around his neck and walked off the stage. After thinking for a while, he felt that this information had nothing to do with the sentence just now, until the group walked back to their seats and heard a senior from the club mention Keigo Atobe's other story. Only when she identified an identity did she get a clue.

"Atobe-kun, isn't he the head of the ice emperor tennis club? I didn't expect him to be the president of the student council."

"Tennis club?" Machida stopped packing his backpack, as if he caught some key words.

In other words, Aigaku...first grade...arrogant...tennis club...

... Putting these labels together, I am afraid that there is no need to filter them.

Machida was silent and closed the zipper of his backpack.

Although people always heard about Echizen Ryoma's arrogant and domineering attitude, she seemed to have never seen him like that. At least from her contact with him last weekend, his poor expression was more impressive.

But even if he is not good at expressing, he is actually silently caring about the people around him.

She lowered her head, her eyes fell on the medal on her chest, and she shook it with her hand.

It seems that it is still impossible to fully know a person only from other people's mouths.

The news that Qingxue won the debate championship quickly spread in the school.

Hisashi Machida did not participate in the competition as a guide, but the topics surrounding him have not diminished at all, because most people are curious, if the president does not step into the arena, the title of best debater in the competition will fall into the Whose hand.

"Senior Sawano is really amazing. He broke out from so many powerful opponents and won the best debater." Riyo Matsuzaki leaned on the vending machine by the school corridor, expressing his admiration, "I Guess there is a high probability that he will be the next president of our club!"

She analyzed clearly, and after she finished speaking, she looked down at the person who was squatting on the ground fighting against the vending machine, and immediately fell down, "Ayi, are you listening to me..."

Machida clasped the machine with both hands and brought his face to the edge of the pick-up opening, reached his neck and poked it up from the inside, "Ang... yes." She maintained this posture, frowning as she spoke, "...this guy There must be a malfunction."

Matsuzaki rubbed his forehead helplessly, took a step forward, pulled away the person who was still patting the machine, and said solemnly: "Get up, I'll do it!"

Before Machida could react, she raised her arm and punched the vending machine without saying a word, and the heavy machine made a dull sound.

Machida was so startled that his shoulders trembled, and before he could catch his breath, he heard a sudden "clang" sound from under the machine.

...?

Matsuzaki was so happy that she jumped up and down, and stretched her hand into the pick-up opening with a smile, and easily took out the things that she had spent a long time trying to see but couldn't see.

When Machida took the drink can from her hand, he couldn't help but think, this girl should not be in the debating club, but should be in the karate club...

She looked down at the drink she had just taken out of the vending machine. There were still drops of water on it, and a burst of cold tide entered her palm. She seemed to remember something, and hurriedly turned around to leave, "Sorry Matsuzaki, I still I have something to do, go back to work first."

After running a few steps, she turned her head again, smiled and raised the beverage can in her hand, "Thank you."

Matsuzaki looked at her back as she disappeared around the corner of the stairs, with a confused expression on his face, "Isn't it time for lunch break?"

When he was approaching the door of the class, Machida slowed down and remembered what Matsuzaki said just now when he was leaning against the vending machine.

In fact, from the beginning of participating in the preliminaries, she has been working hard with the goal of being the best debater, because what Machida can do, she also wants to do.

She didn't do it, she thought she would be very disappointed.

But it was strange, whether it was the moment when the name of Sawano senior was announced on the day of the final, or when she heard Matsuzaki mention this matter just now, even now, she was not as lost and sad as she expected.

Machida stepped into the classroom somewhat absent-mindedly, and his eyes fell on Echizen Ryoma's seat.

There is no one in the seat.

She stood there for a moment, thinking that he was still sitting there eating when she went out just now, why is there no one there now.But when she looked up at the clock on the wall, she realized that she had dawdled in front of the vending machine for more than half an hour.

She originally wanted to give him a can of drink as a thank you.In any case, she was able to participate in this competition with a calm mind, and it was somewhat thanks to his help, and...he also gave her a hand in the stairwell of the lighthouse.

The hand holding the drink can was frozen stiff, and when she was distracted, she suddenly heard someone call her in the middle of the classroom: "Machida."

She found the source of the voice, "Ah Horio-kun, what's the matter?"

Horio sat on the seat, tortured to death by the English test papers full of red crosses. He stared at the pile of letters for a whole afternoon, but he still couldn't understand the relationship between them, so he had to ask someone for help.

With a bitter face, he looked at the top student in the class, "If you are free, can you give me some English questions..."

Machida Kazu's eyes fell on the paper in his hand, and he wanted to give him the drink without waiting for Echizen Ryoma to come back, so he smiled and nodded, "Yes." He put the jar in his hand on his desk and pulled it out Sit down next to Horio.

……

"There is yesterday at the end of the sentence, which means that this sentence is in the past tense, so the previous go must use the past form went..."

"of is a preposition, make is a verb, you can't use a verb directly after a preposition, you need to add e to ing to become a gerund..."

……

Horio asked questions one after another, and at the end he felt a little embarrassed. He took a peek at Machida Kazu who was sitting aside, and saw that the other party didn't seem impatient, so he relaxed and continued to listen.

After one paper was analyzed, he suddenly felt that the world was much brighter. When he was relieved, he inadvertently glanced at the two papers on the next table.The above one is the same as his, it is also full of red at first glance, but its nature is completely different.

His mood that had just recovered fell to the bottom in an instant, and he sighed, "That guy from Echizen has a full score in English...and he also has a high score in mathematics. It really takes a strong heart to sit at the same table with him."

Machida followed his gaze and looked at Echizen Ryoma's desk. There were two test papers randomly stacked on the desk, apparently they had just been handed out and hadn't been touched.

Horio thought that his math scores were not much better than English, and felt even more distressed, "To be able to solve such complicated math problems, Echizen's brain must be very difficult...does he have more parts than ordinary people? "

When Machida heard that he was about to say that Echizen Ryoma was like an alien, he was a little bit dumbfounded, "Horio-kun, your brain is too big." After thinking about it, "I guess, it may be because Echizen-kun is a mind Simple people."

She turned her eyes to the nearly full-score math paper, and bent her lips, "Because the way of looking at problems is pure and direct, you can find specific laws and logic in complicated things, and then come up with a solution."

As she spoke, the words Echizen Ryoma said when she was at the beach came back to her mind, and she couldn't help confirming her thoughts even more, completely ignoring the person standing in front of her.

Until I heard Horio's surprised voice: "Ah Echizen!"

Only then did she suddenly come back to her senses, raised her head, and immediately met Ryoma's lowered gaze.